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There are a lot of rumblings currently going on in the video game industry. With a new generation on the horizon, and highly-anticipated games such as Death Stranding and Cyberpunk 2077 constantly in the news, it's easy to forget that we've...

From Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name, to Franco Nero's Django and even Emilio Estevez as an obnoxious, giggling Billy the Kid, there's still nothing quite like the uber-romanticised days of swing-door saloons, girls doing the Can-Can and ...

Square Enix has released an epic new trailer for their long, long long-awaited RPG sequel Kingdom Hearts III; an extended version of the Tokyo Game Show trailer teased last week.The new hype-reel, which runs just under four-minutes, is pack...

Fans of Marvel's second-best web-slinger (after Jessica Drew) can stoke their hype-fires a little today. Insomniac Games has announced that their exciting open-world adventure, Spider-Man, has gone gold.As I'm very sure you're all aware, th...

If you're excited to see the Western return of Valkyria Chronicles (let's all please forget Valkyria Revolution happened), why not take a gander at the opening cinematic?
Sega has uploaded the trailer to YouTube for your viewing pleasure an...

[Update: A logo for Hitman 2 has been found on the WB Games website.]
With E3 hype season getting into full swing, we're bound to be getting a crapton of teasers and rumors floating around the internet this week. Not content to let fans mak...

Naughty Dog's Vice-President Neil Druckmann has set tongues wagging with a vague message on his twitter account, hyping an upcoming reveal for sombre sequel The Last of Us Part II.The tweet simply features an image of a miserable-looking ba...

The announcement of the Atari VCS was pretty exciting. Here was a seemingly dead company coming back from the grave to re-release its most successful console in 2018. While no one knew if this was simply a modern take on classic hardware, t...

A lot of fans are twitching with anticipation to see what UK developers Rocksteady have planned for their next release, following the excellent Batman: Arkham trilogy. There has been no news forthcoming, but that doesn't mean something awes...

Telltale is going to be at San Diego Comic Con this weekend, but what they were bringing was a mystery until now. Ahead of the convention proper, the developer has announced sequels to three of its most popular series, including a Wolf Amon...

When Hello Games announced a minor delay for its much-anticipated game No Man's Sky, the team received death threats.
When Kotaku so much as reported on the delay, its staff also got death threats.
This is obviously a huge goddamn...

For fans concerned that the amount of areas available to players in Destiny, Bungie has spoken out in a bid to reassure the masses. And their idea of reassuring those who participated in the Destiny beta is to basically pop off with some do...

When you look to hard-hitting journalism you (hopefully) look to Destructoid. In keeping with this tradition we had the creators of Hyper Light Drifter onto our live channel to talk about developing the game while we totally dissected the ...

I have to admit that despite all of the adoration and anticipation surrounding Titanfall, I haven't been feeling the hype myself. I know I'm not alone in this sentiment, but I like to believe I have been keeping my cynicism in check, consi...

With only ten days left until release, Pokemon X and Y have collectively claimed the crown of the most pre-ordered 3DS game in Japan, reports Famitsu. Sitting at a pretty 1.26 million copies pre-ordered, X and Y have edged out Black 2 and W...

PAX attendees are in for a super special treat next week. The infamous Keiji Inafune will be delivering an hour-long panel in the Kraken Theater on Saturday from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM. He'll run through his 25-year industry career, make commen...

I think I've made it pretty clear that I think San Francisco is the best city in America. No, that's not up for debate. To help solidify these claims we've teamed up with Dear Mom in San Francisco to craft the finest Evo 2013 stream mankind...

Today is sloooooow. It's the day after the US presidential elections, and the day after Halo 4 launched, so the game industry is busy sleeping off one heck of a late night. We're still here though, and today's the perfect time for another Q...

It was leaked ahead of time that Square Enix was building to an iOS port of The World Ends with You, something that would have infuriated hyped fans under normal circumstances. However, Square Enix had hinted that it wasn't just hyping an i...

Of course you do!
I just got back from an early visit to the L.A. Convention Center, home to next week's massive industry event: E3. You may have heard about it.
The final preparations are almost complete, with companies putting the finishi...

Every year, E3 rolls in surrounded by a sea of hype and anticipation. Sometimes, this hype is surpassed with giant waves of unexpected news and announcements. Other times, the show ends in disappointment, as many of the new games and exciti...

E3 is the biggest videogame industry event of the year, and with good reason: It is out of control. In a good way, of course. Huge game announcements, non-stop news, a whirlwind of assets -- it's one of the best, most exciting weeks of the ...

A new teaser site has crept onto the thing we call the Internet, and it brings sultry promises of new Baldur's Gate content. The site plays music, has a few images, and bears a quote from Alaundo, but the stuff hidden in the source code bri...

For today's after-hours entertainment, Woolie and Matt of Fighterpedia present the ladies of Skullgirls, hot and vicious for your pleasure. The video is a five-minute excuse for the boys to gush incoherently about how awesome the upcoming ...

This past Saturday, Valve released a video featuring Portal 2 antagonist Wheatley. Unsurprisingly, the Internet descended upon it with icepicks and magnifying glasses, ready to take it apart and examine every frame for clues about Half-Life...

Well, borderlands continues the series tradition of having terrible boss fights for single It’s always nice to kill 90% of a boss and then have to start over because there wasn’t anything else to kill to get back